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              Pensions crisis

              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                Investors call for UK government to reform defined benefit pensions

                Overhaul could free up billions for real estate and infrastructure, asset managers say

                Commuters cross London Bridge
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                Final salary schemes
                UK pensions lifeboat wipes £283bn off defined benefit funding estimates

                ‘Hugely embarrassing’ recalculation puts schemes at a deficit of just over £130bn in 2023

                A £1 coin sits on a dictionary with an explanation of a pension fund below
              • Friday, 18 October, 2024
                Pensions
                Pension de-risking: the pitfalls for retirement savers

                Bonds, traditionally seen as safe assets for pension pots, have been subject to huge fluctuations in recent years

                Illustration of people increasing in age crossing a mountain range
              • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                Time to hit the pensions panic button

                Possible Budget changes would widen the gulf between public and private sector pension schemes

              • Monday, 16 September, 2024
                Business InsightJohn Plender
                The pension fund transfer business needs urgent scrutiny

                Insurers are receiving a very handsome reward for such a low-risk business

              • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                The best investment tip of all? Start when you’re young

                Sir Douglas Flint joins calls to boost personal finance teaching in schools

              • Friday, 6 September, 2024
                James Henderson
                Why pension surpluses should get investors to prick up their ears

                With interest rates higher, many schemes are moving out of deficit, which could feed through to share prices

              • Friday, 30 August, 2024
                Gender pay gap
                Half of women ‘expect to run out of money in retirement’

                Gender gap persists as one in 10 women say they are cutting pension contributions to fund essential expenses

                Woman taking British bank notes from her wallet
              • Friday, 30 August, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                What’s the chancellor’s next move going to be with my pension?

                Fiddling with pensions taxation could blight the retirement prospects of millions

              • Friday, 23 August, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                Data is the key to supporting Britain’s poorest pensioners

                As energy bills rise, bolder reforms are needed to identify the 880,000 households missing out on pension credit

              • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
                Pensions
                ‘Government must act to avoid retirement crisis’

                Industry warns on pensions bill’s missed opportunity on minimum contributions

                Commuters at London’s Canary Wharf
              • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
                Pensions industry
                More FTSE-listed companies look to access pension surpluses

                More employers pause buyout plans with insurers after improvements to scheme funding positions

                Commuters leave a train station
              • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
                LexPensions industry
                Old-style pensions are fixed. Now for their poorly funded successors Premium content

                There is a strong case for improving the pensions of the existing workforce

                Commuters at London Bridge
              • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
                Universities Superannuation Scheme
                Big UK pension scheme under pressure over Thames Water stake

                Universities Superannuation Scheme owns 20% stake in troubled utility that is in effect worthless

              • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
                Pensions industry
                UK pension rules risk ‘finishing off’ remaining defined-benefit plans, MPs warn

                Commons committee calls on government and regulator to change tack over where retirement schemes can invest

                Pension pay advice slips
              • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
                Pensions industry
                Members of Debenhams pension plan to have their benefits restored

                Thousands of people due to gain from transfer of scheme to ‘superfund’ operator Clara

                People walk past a closed Debenhams store
              • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
                Pension automatic enrolment
                Reforms to extend UK workplace pensions to young people ‘stuck in limbo’

                Minister makes no commitment to when measures that received cross-party support will be rolled out

                A young mechanic works on a car’s engine
              • Monday, 19 February, 2024
                Corporate bonds
                Pension fund demand drives resurgence of UK corporate bond market

                Schemes increase exposure in wake of 2022 gilts market crisis and as they prepare for buyout deals

                Commuters carry umbrellas while crossing London Bridge in London
              • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
                UK pension funds lost £425bn in year of bond market crisis

                Schemes registered a new quarter drop in asset value in 2022 driven by mini-Budget turmoil, finds Pensions Regulator

                City workers walk past the Bank of England
              • Friday, 26 January, 2024
                Claer Barrett
                Lifestyling: a hidden danger lurking in your pension pot

                Plight of savers in their 50s and 60s is wake-up call for greater pensions awareness

              • Monday, 22 January, 2024
                Pensions industry
                UK businesses to offload record £60bn of pension obligations

                Higher interest rates continue to fuel surge in dealmaking, according to new forecast

                The City of London skyline
              • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
                Pensions
                Government defends access to UK pension surpluses

                Trustees will be prevented from making risky decisions if proposals go ahead

                Commuters heading across London Bridge towards the City of London
              • Friday, 8 December, 2023
                Final salary schemes
                Game over for DB pensions?

                Insert coin to discontinue

              • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
                Pensions industry
                Jeremy Hunt to unveil expanded role for UK’s pensions lifeboat fund

                Chancellor’s move is part of range of measures aimed at channelling retirement fund investment to boost economic growth

                Jeremy Hunt
              • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
                LexBT Group Plc
                BT/pensions: less is more for telecoms company’s obligation Premium content

                The arcane world of pension valuations could be set to move into the spotlight

                Incoming BT chief Allison Kirkby
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